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Quilting big data threads
24th May 2012

Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.

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The fallacy of information overload
23rd May 2012

A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?

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Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure?
23rd May 2012

Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.

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Marketing is education; education is marketing
22nd May 2012

All marketing is a form of education. Many vendors have found that a reuse license for a VIP review of their products provides them with a flexible, powerful education and marketing tool, effective for meeting the needs of a range of audiences and goals.

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Newsdesk: tracking millions of pieces of information a day
22nd May 2012

What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?

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Alacra Compliance adds managerial oversight
22nd May 2012

Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).

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Time to sharpen your information tools - A VIP Editorial
22nd May 2012

I recently completed a major house renovation project, so my mind has been occupied with building matters over the last few months. In the midst all the financial pain and stressful disruption, I found some interesting parallels with my “day job” as a researcher.

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Knowledge Graph and So.cl to deflect from Facebook
22nd May 2012

While media attention has focussed on Facebook’s IPO, the major search engines have quietly launched new products, which could give Facebook a run for its money. Google’s Knowledge Graph, introduced on Google’s blog, is being hailed as a significant step towards the semantic web.

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Professional development at your desk
17th May 2012

From six years ago, when the first edition of Robin Neidorf's book on distance education came out, enormous changes have enabled distance learning to become part of our standard professional tool kit. As Robin finishes the details for the second edition of the book, she reflects on the power of the medium to have a positive impact on skill and performance.

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The cloud - more secure than we think?
16th May 2012

More companies are adopting the cloud and finding they save time and money in terms of security management. Government worries about cloud computing relating to privacy, security and data flow may be overstated, and the cloud may eventually become more important to individuals than their personal computers.

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